[PHCN] was established in December 1999. We are a group that having fun in programming and most other things one can do with computers. We also love discussions, learning, (digital)art, meeting interesting people and so on...

[PHCN] is not public! We just have our website with minimal news and some public services like our Jabber server,"Certificated" and since March 2008 a "Free Webspace Hosting Project". We don't like to stay with the public as other crews since we don't want the glory and the showing-off.

Until 2004 PHCN stood for "Programmer´s Hacking and Cracking Network". The idea of the name was a community of programmers and hackers that contains both whitehats and blackhats. The name was dropped in October 2004, because the time of those names had passed. Most scriptkiddie crews use names like "31337 hacker" etc. and PHCN does not want to be misunderstood. So since the end of the year 2004 we use "PHCN" without any meaning. Some people say PHCN stands for "Professional Hosting and Coding Network" or "Privat Host and Community Network" and they might be right.

We have started a "FreeHosting" project in March 2008. Anyone can host their own website, blogs, forum etc. on our servers, for free. Have a look here: http://www.freeunix.net/

We are no criminals, we identify ourself with the old ways of 'computer-culture'. That means computers are a part of our daily life and we love to understand, program and have fun with them, but we would never do any harm to anyone.
In former times people like we were called hackers, but since the meaning of the word has changed, 'geeks' is probably the better word.

Everyone can join us if he understands our living, respects our codex and shares our view of the world.